Vote!

If you're like me, you took all those thick voting guides and sample ballots to work yesterday. Your intention was to study them during the day, because you were going out last night. But you were too busy...meetings all day at work, leaving just enough time to stop by Safeway and buy that fruit tart and get to your friends' 15 minutes late.

Later on, trying to park near your house was an ordeal. PG&E has moved into your neighborhood, and as everyone knows, once they arrive, it will be years before they are done with whatever it is they purportedly are doing. Therefore, it will be years before you can again easily find a parking place, unless, of course, you drive a Mini.

Meanwhile, later still last night, as you collapse across your bed and remember that tomorrow is the election, you look around frantically for those election materials...which sit, untouched and unread, on your desk at work many, many miles away.

Well, I can't help you figure out who or what to vote for, but I can help you find out where your polling place is. Because, if you live in a neighborhood like mine, polling places are always moving. Not to fret: Help is just as click away at
411.org.

Good luck!